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Jeff Tiedrich's avatar

today in Shit That Happened While I Was Busy Writing This Shit —

Piss-Drunk Pete can haz opinion.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2026/05/05/hegseth-briefing-iran-strait-hormuz-ceasefire/

"U.S. mission to reopen Strait of Hormuz will be temporary, Hegseth says"

I don't even know what that means, 'temporary.' I thought Donny was blowing Iran off the face of the earth.

Miselle's avatar
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Thanks for the trip down memory lane, Jeff. While you share with us, I bet others are having the same experience as I am: thinking about those I've lost. My parents and few siblings, of course. My dear friend who succumbed to TWO cancers and who bestowed my nickname "Miselle" to me.

And yesterday was the first anniversary of the death of our good friend, Tom. He started as our personal trainer at our local park district. Didn't drink, ate healthy, exercised daily, was a loving husband and father, and most impressively quietly extensively volunteered in our community. And yet, he got a brain tumor.

Keeping those names in the minds of others keeps those we've lost forever alive in us. I'm not expressing this well, but I think everyone knows what I mean.

Hugs to you.

Deborah Hunter's avatar

Unfortunately, having a healthy lifestyle doesn't guarantee good health or longevity. I think so much of our destiny is in our genes. It helps explain why not all smokers get lung cancer, everyone obese doesn't get diabetes and so on. Trump's parents lived to be 88 and 92. That was way back before all the food and health warnings. I think that's why he's almost 80 despite his bad health habits.

JChambers's avatar

Well, THAT'S depressing......having it around for another ten years or so! 😳

Victoria Wilson's avatar

Yeah he has longevity in his genes- dammit!!! As my mom used to say- No self- respecting germ would light on him.

P123Sunny's avatar

As Neil deGrasse Tyson pointed out - all of those ppl in history whose life expectancies were around 30-40 yrs - WERE EATING ORGANICALLY if you think about it 😁😅 (pre-science)

HulitC's avatar

That statistic always annoyed me. If you calculated the life expectancy for males once they made it through childhood they often live quite long. It’s children that catch all those diseases or have accidents while women die in childbirth that bring the average life expedient so low.

Emma Ray's avatar

Yes. before toxic sprays were developed and poisoned crops and grains

rlritt's avatar

Yes but were they coherent and of sound mind? Did they know what year it was or where they lived?

Bill Corbett's avatar

His father didn’t.

Kim Nesvig's avatar

Trump’s father was drifting off into the abyss years before he died. Donald is following the same path, but given that 49% of the voters chose to re-elect Trump, he’s far more dangerous to himself and others than even his arguably horrible father. It’s time to put Trump, Chuck Grassley and Sue Colins in a home.

LORI  D's avatar

They were nuts too.

HI2thDoc's avatar

The seemingly random or at least capricious way we lose good people while those terrible destructive miscreants stick around drives me nuts. I knew someone similar to your friend Tom who ate right (vegetarian) and lived a clean lifestyle but then died of melanoma. Geez.

P123Sunny's avatar

So tired of BAD ppl getting away with BAD sh*t… WHY IS THIS TOLERATED? Oh that’s right - when ‘kindness is weakness’ became a thing… GeezUS

HI2thDoc's avatar

The real problem is the asymmetry between good and evil. Good follows rules, obeys laws, has ethics and morals, resists base impulses, tries to be benevolent on a wider scale beyond itself. Evil does the opposite of all those things, and evil's scope is exceedingly narrow since self-interest is its defining characteristic.

P123Sunny's avatar

And if evil gets ahead of the curve, good is forever caught on its back foot… SICK OF THIS!

HI2thDoc's avatar

But good keeps plowing ahead and will never cease, as long as there are enough who believe right matters

Mary de Ridder's avatar

It’s the good girls go to heaven, bad girls go everywhere syndrome we’re living through on a leadership scale.

michellefromchicago's avatar

I would like Hegseth to be temporary

Chris Hierholzer's avatar

You can say the whole thing Mike. 86 47. Just don't do it with sea shells.

HI2thDoc's avatar

How do we know those shells didn't arrange themselves that way? Even shells may be getting woke

michellefromchicago's avatar

As in getting booted back to wingnut welfare

HI2thDoc's avatar

aka the Murdoch Lie Machine

T L Mills's avatar

ASAP, please!

Stephen Ball's avatar

That is "Hagueseth" to those in the know, as you are now...

Betsy L's avatar

He's already been there too long to be temporary. Of course, a week would be too long.

Wendy The Druid 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈🌈's avatar

https://thistleandmoss.com/p/what-survives-the-morning-the-king-is-rotting-flesh-we-can-all-smell-it

"He does not have the mental sharpness it takes to lead the country."

Fifty-nine percent. Not a poll — a diagnosis nobody's been permitted to officially file. The Washington Post-ABC News-Ipsos survey found 55 percent believe the dementia-addled despot lacks the physical health to serve. Sixty-seven percent say he doesn't carefully consider important decisions. He called his press secretary "Kellyanne." He said "Iceland" when he meant "Greenland" four times in Davos. The bruises on his hands keep appearing; the explanation keeps changing.

HI2thDoc's avatar

Ain't he a pearl

He can ID a squirrel!

He knowed when he saw one

Just like he has done

To each Teen USA pageant girl

Kay-El's avatar

1. Once Iran is blown off the face of the earth will there be any need to monitor the Strait? Will there even be a Strait?

2. One of my spawn attended UCONN. When I visited we drove to Mystic and ate at The Shipwrights Daughter. Truly one of the best meals I’ve had the pleasure to enjoy.

Jeff Tiedrich's avatar

I know, right?

Mike Hammer's avatar

All great places in Connecticut to visit. Mystic is a trip on Christmas Eve if you can still feel your face outside.

HI2thDoc's avatar

If I go to Mystic I want a 20-something Julia Roberts to serve my pizza

Emma Ray's avatar

was a good movie, Mystic Pizza

Stephen Ball's avatar

...and I want the world to survive mankind's vicious onslaughts--but we can dream, right?

HI2thDoc's avatar

Your dream is slightly more important than mine

Joyce M. Shaw's avatar

Visited there as a child. My grandparents lived in Waterbury. 60 years ago...

SethTriggs's avatar

The Straits of Schrödinger are a dimension of sight and sound, where everything is true and false at the same time.

And of course, for Maladministration 2.0, all that needs to be done in any interview is win the moment. Owing to Murc's Law, whatever they say needs not even be consistent with what's said in the same paragraph. Just has to win that instant; the servile press will type what is said uncritically, and we careen on to the next crisis.

rlritt's avatar

There are still 3 out of 10 people who think he's just fine, but they probably couldn't find Iran on a map.

T L Mills's avatar

Undoubtedly the same folks who couldn't find their own butt with both hands and a map.

LORI  D's avatar

They might call it Greenland

SethTriggs's avatar

"Iran? No I'm still here!"

Steve in SoCal's avatar

They couldn't find the USA on a map either

HI2thDoc's avatar

Schrodinger's Strait

In its indeterminate state

Because those two tools

Are reckless fools

Is now Hegseth-Trumpgate

LORI  D's avatar

I am officially renaming the strait.

J Hardy Carroll's avatar

As a disgraced Guardie major his men were so alarmed at his batshit drunken Nazi behavior they reported him, and he resigned rather than face the court martial coming his way. His grudge list was longer than Trump's, and he's chewed the military to rags. I hope that his version of God is accurate, because that man will be granted eternal life in the lava pit.

myhoopbabies's avatar

Is it all about market manipulation? Why the fuck aren't they figuring out a way to end this thing and just lie and say "we win!" They lie about absolutely everything, so just call it already!

rlritt's avatar

Yes, I worked for several years on the International Monetary Market in the Mercantile Exchange. Markets could swing wildly on important international political news.

Sharon Hudnall's avatar

I heard a financial commentator note that the irrational Market Manipulation Monday rebounds for the DOW and S&P are caused by algorithms that do not fully engage with human reality. It's not a reliable barometer of the financial health of the nation or world. Just a casino where the house always wins.

Major Kong's avatar

"Just a casino where the house always wins." Trump Casino on line one.

devourerofpancakes's avatar

He said we won too often, like the boy who cried wolf. So now he has to throw something else at the wall and hope it sticks.

Kathleen Weber's avatar

So far, every war has been temporary. No one of them lasts forever. Afghanistan was a mere twenty years or so. But that's not as temporary as the 30 Years War or Hundred Years War. Temporary can last a hell of a long time.

Sharon Hudnall's avatar

Pan to the extended ceasefire in Korea that still costs us billions as overseers.

Abby From Maine's avatar

Jesus H on a crutch!

Sweet photo of your girls Jeff <3

Susan Keefer's avatar

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth said he can neither confirm nor deny reports that Iran is using mine-strapped “Kamikaze dolphins,” following sparse reporting of their use last week. JFC! 🐬💥

HI2thDoc's avatar

Redux from last month:

The Secretary of Bragging and Booze

With the Christian nationalist tattoos

Has braggadocio and bluster

But can't seem to muster

Enough to open the Strait of Hormuz

Mike Hammer's avatar

All great places in Connecticut to visit. Mystic is a trip on Christmas Eve if you cannot feel your face outside.

Jennifer's avatar

Obama graduated magna cum laude from Harvard Law School and was the first Black president of the Harvard Law Review. Trump can point to a squirrel. Half this country doesn't like that.

And that, ladies and gents, is why we're in this mess.

Susan Niemann's avatar

Thanks for pointing that out. I seriously miss the intellect and decency Obama brought to the office.

Jennifer's avatar

His decency and lack of daily scandal was matched only by the right's determination to manufacture them at any cost.

Mike Hammer's avatar

Lack of scandal? Are you unaware that he once wore a tan suit?

Susan Niemann's avatar

Isnt that the truth….. the right should be ashamed of their greed and racism.

Marlene Lerner-Bigley (CA)'s avatar

Should is the operative word. These bastards are the ghosts of 250 years past. I say seashell the shit outta them!

rlritt's avatar

They are in office due to the support billionaire oligarchs who need a compliant executive. Just like Russia.

Mike Hammer's avatar

I would how about instead of racism you learn graceism?

HI2thDoc's avatar

He had the temerity to believe that food, housing, healthcare, and opportunity should be standard for everyone. Of course, to conservatives this is heresy.

Carol C's avatar

It sure is! The states that refused free federal money to expand Medicaid for their people were mostly the old Confederacy.

Medicaid expansion might help people of any color. That’s was its problem, it might benefit the wrong population.

Lynn Van Haren's avatar

Yes, the tan suit scandal was worth a week’s coverage on Fox

George in Atlanta's avatar

But his presidency was so booooooring! NPR would drone on and on and ON about how "the President is meeting with EU leaders today to blah blah the blah blah, and will then return to Washington to lobby Congress for his Health Care blahdeblahdeblah". I couldn't stand it. I wanted somebody to just shoot me.

God, I miss him.

Susan Niemann's avatar

The good old days..when we didn’t live in constant fear of what our government was going to do next. *sigh

rlritt's avatar

If they want a colorful and entertaining president to fill their 24 news feed, then we need to really pass laws that curtail the President's actual power. Make him Head of State like King Charles who has no ability to make laws or policies for the government.

Phil Weltner's avatar

I was sooo looking forward to a really boring Hilary Clinton administration. She's a good administrator who would have actually gotten things done, sans the daily drama,.

George in Atlanta's avatar

Wouldn't have gone down like that at all. The MAGAs would have been ungovernable. They hated her far more than they hated Obama.

We need to learn to do that, to be ungovernable under Trump. We're too rational.

Mary Lou Williams's avatar

I used to wish more females had leadership positions as evidenced by women leaders in other countries until Noem, Bondi, MTG, and others were put into powerful positions. Now I just think old fools like Trump, Grassley should be put out to pasture.

devourerofpancakes's avatar

I long for the days of the tan suit scandal.

Susan Niemann's avatar

Same. And he wore it well.

Mary Lou Williams's avatar

And Michele wearing sleeveless tops.

rlritt's avatar

Thats not all. We had perfectly workable agreement in writng with Iran, but because Trump is a racist nepo baby he decided to scrap it. That will have effect on many important agreements that the US might have with other countries who count on the US to maintain treaties. They now know a treaty may not last more than four years if the oligarchs decide to put a compliant total imbecile in office.

Susan Niemann's avatar

Exactly-the cost of this racism is killing America.

Susie's avatar

Intellect and decency. Well said.

Permian Extinction's avatar

Don't forget. Obama is on Colbert tonight.

Richard Dorset's avatar

Thanks for the heads up. Colbert being cancelled by those CBS Trump cucks is yet another indignity we have to endure because of Hillary’s emails. I bring that up because if MAGA had been strangled in the crib, so to speak, back then, we wouldn’t be going through this horror show now

HI2thDoc's avatar

MAGA was birthed and nurtured by that fucker Reagan and his welfare queen dog whistle, his cutting of mental health funding, and his open favoritism of his rich friends.

George in Atlanta's avatar

We tolerated them long before they were MAGA. It's our fault we let them flourish through our benign neglect, so now we must suffer for our error.

Mary Lou Williams's avatar

I hope MS News picks him up as a regular.

Deborah Hunter's avatar

I'm almost Trump's age and I know my animals!

AuntTeeFa's avatar

Ditto, even learning new ones!

Carol C's avatar

Axolotl! ( I learned from 4-year-old grandson.)

Linda McCaughey's avatar

I have a pink axolotl neck pillow!!!

George in Atlanta's avatar

Oooooh, axolotls are the absolute bomb for that generation! They're the new T-Rex for little boys. Where did that even COME from?

Bob Bowden's avatar

I say “asshole” whenever I point to his sphincter-shaped mouth, and my MD declares my cognition to be 100%

SPW's avatar

I’m three whole weeks older and I saw a squirrel in my yard that would blow his tiny mind. It’s a reverse skunk.striped black and white 🤯🤯. Funky.

rlritt's avatar

Trump could pick out a picture of a squirrel on a test but he doesn't know the impact an oil shortage has on the price of gas.

LORI  D's avatar

way too many, for sure. the rest are wealthy and don't like paying taxes.

Bren M's avatar

My father had dementia. The easiest way to keep him calm was to figure out where he was in his own mind and deal with him there. That’s exactly how his cabinet deals with Jabba. But my father didn’t have the nuclear codes.

arne link's avatar

Of course. That's why they send him out to perform for friendly crowds. How can these audiences laugh and clap? It's absolutely disgusting how stupid people can be.

AuntTeeFa's avatar

Exactly. Perform. Not govern

rlritt's avatar

The problem is that those "people" making decisions behind him are absolutely immoral, greedy bastards intent on turning the country into a fascist oligarchy, and they not mentally impaired.

Stephen Brady's avatar

Paraphasia, perseveration, confabulation, loss of train of thought, gait and balance disorders, how much more do we need to diagnose dementia - even at a distance?

Deborah Hunter's avatar

Reagan wasn't even that bad at the end of his term.

Stephen Brady's avatar

Well, Nancy was effectively President then.

HI2thDoc's avatar

Or Nancy's astrologer

Grace Kennedy's avatar

That’s right. Bush was “out of the loop”.

Ted Borys's avatar

And who is now? Miller? Vought? Wiles? Lutnick? Someone else?

devourerofpancakes's avatar

Exactly, so per Brady below, who is effectively president right now?

Stephen Brady's avatar

His wife the floor lamp won't even let him touch her. My guesss is Stephen Miller.

HI2thDoc's avatar

Even the Nazis had Operation Valkyrie, so in at least one respect they were saner and more rational than this regime of dangerous psychos

Bill Corbett's avatar

Let’s hope he doesn’t remember the codes.

Terri Nighswonger's avatar

He doesn’t remember the codes. But his handlers do.

Terri Nighswonger's avatar

If he has the nuclear codes, I am sure he doesn’t know where he put them.

Mike Hammer's avatar

Maybe Jeff, we should have listened to Trump early on when bragging about his intellect when he said “I have the best mental”. That should have cleared things up.

Deborah Hunter's avatar

Gas at suburban station in Vegas this morning- $6.29 premium. Was $5.24 about 10 days ago. Thanks Donnie. 🤮

Lucius's avatar

Anyone else remember when Republicans went around plastering Biden "I DID THAT" stickers at gas pumps when gas was up to like three dollars a gallon?

Cheri Collins's avatar

I bought Trump ones.

Susan Niemann's avatar

I DO! Where are the Trump stickers???

Jeff Tiedrich's avatar

I actually saw a Donny-themed 'I did that' sticker on a local pump a couple of week ago. someone put one up, and someone else tried to tear it off

Susan Niemann's avatar

Excellent. I’ll find out where to get some and slather all of my redneck Missouri county with them. 😂😂

Katherine P Duncan's avatar

Susan Niemann I just love that idea!!

Bill Corbett's avatar

Susan I didn’t like buying them on Amazon, but once in a while I have to. I keep them in both cars at the ready while shopping.

DuduLovesBubu's avatar

I wish they had "MAGA Did That" stickers. More direct. Made so they're impossible to get off. Troll the fuck out of MAGA.

Susan Niemann's avatar

Excellent idea. I’ll look for those because the internet is a vast shopping emporium. 😜

rlritt's avatar

Google "Trump, I did that" and you can buy them on online.

Hollie Rood's avatar

Poor MAGATS… the truth hurts and they believe if they take down a Donny-themed “I did that” sticker, no one will ever know it WAS him 🤦‍♀️🤦‍♀️

john augustine's avatar

maga can't handle the truth

rlritt's avatar

There fewer and fewer of them. Still 3 out of ten, but they are figuring it out.

Irascible Ink's avatar

I posted one in response to a friend's meme of a gas station sign that said "Bro. Just walk". Her reply? "You're very narrow-minded about things".

🤦‍♀️

myhoopbabies's avatar

My sister in rural Montana has a stack of Trump "I did that" stickers and slaps them on every chance she gets. It has that picture of him with that stupid-ass grin. You know, that ONE shitty picture of him?

Terri Nighswonger's avatar

All trump’s pictures are shitty

Sharon Hudnall's avatar

They should have used his beloved mug shot. You know, the one inside the passport cover that will guarantee you get the crappiest hotel rooms on your European vacation.

Deborah Hunter's avatar

Repubs are so childish.

Cyndi's avatar

You insult non MAGA children...

LORI  D's avatar

Yes, I do. So let's do that again. TRUMP DID THAT.

Susan Niemann's avatar

JFC! In Philly it's not quite $5. I may buy a horse. 🤣

arne link's avatar

Don't do it. we're dealing with enough horse s#!t already.

Hollie Rood's avatar

😂😂😂 Horse sh1t, pig sh1t…virtually any kind of sh1t (including 🐂💩) is way less offensive than the 🍊🤡🐖y sh1t spewed each and every day

T L Mills's avatar

and 10,000 times more useful than trumpshit!

HI2thDoc's avatar

Even his verbal emanations can fertilize 40 acres. Imagine what his diaper could do

T L Mills's avatar

If it didn't irremediably poison all 40 acres!

Katherine P Duncan's avatar

arne link Hah hah hah hah hah hah hah

devourerofpancakes's avatar

Wouldn't that solve our fertilizer problem, too?

RZolu's avatar

Now THAT is funny!!

HI2thDoc's avatar

Do the MAGAs with their oversized, small-dick energy trucks actually know why the price of fuel is so high? My guess is no

Susan Niemann's avatar

I would NOT want to fill up a monster truck right now. 🤦‍♀️

HI2thDoc's avatar

Well, it's an opportunity for those dumbshits to blame Joe Biden

Terri Nighswonger's avatar

They are still blaming Biden for everything. They are stupid.

HI2thDoc's avatar

I believe we have entered Trump Invective Insensitivity Syndrome, whereby we have called MAGAs every derogatory term in existence to describe their lack of cognition and stupid, idiot, dumbass, shitforbrains, etc., have lost their impact through overuse and overexposure

Anne Murray 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿's avatar

Very roughly, after converting litres to gallons then changing pounds to dollars, here I Glasgow, Scotland it's just shy of $8 a gallon. Much more in rural areas.

Mps's avatar

Loving my EV more every day.

Anne Murray 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿's avatar

I almost went for one last summer but thought I'd wait till they were a bit cheaper. Oh well...!

rlritt's avatar

However, its 275 miles fron Northern Scotland to Southern Scotland. When I drive from San Clemente to Las Vegas to see family its 288 miles. And there is no convenient, reliable public transportation.

Daniel M Kimmel's avatar

Who would have thought that Trump would become a champion of the Green New Deal?

https://paulkrugman.substack.com/p/trump-is-losing-a-second-war

Dr J's Sanity Space's avatar

😂😂😂😂🐎🐪

Deborah Hunter's avatar

Gas is always higher in NV. Premium usually hovers somewhere in the $4 range. High state gas tax. But we have no personal income tax so I'll take that anyday.

rlritt's avatar

I'd check on the price of oats. Fertilizer is going up in price too. Its all one thing and sucks.

Lynn Van Haren's avatar

In IL, regular gas is $4.99 now!

Mr Mild - BlueVotingBastard💙's avatar

Yikes! Here in the Merrinack Valley of Massachusetts gas has gone up at least $1.40 (nearly a 50% increase in the last couple of months) for Regular. Diesel was $5.99 yesterday. I filled our CR-V yesterday, over 10 gallons, for $46.

I know that doesn’t come close to what other folks around the country are seeing, but it is taking a bite out of our retirement.

HI2thDoc's avatar

Hedge your bets on your retirement accounts! Buy trump crypto! A safe haven if ever there was one, right? Right? Hello?

Terri Nighswonger's avatar

And for what? 😝😡

Daniel M Kimmel's avatar

This is only the most obvious sign of Trumpflation.

T L Mills's avatar

True. Our grocery bill is rising relentlessly each week, even buying the same items.

Sharon Hudnall's avatar

$7 for a loaf of ordinary bread here at the corner store. Nearly $7/gal for gas. A gallon of milk the same ($7). In (red) states where the minimum wage is still around $8/hour, many folks aren't going to survive -- especially with food stamps and Medicaid wiped out. Project 2025 dystopia.

LORI  D's avatar

Good! Maybe people will start using less and stay home.

Ann Anderson's avatar

It's past time for the pendulum to swing left, and when it does it had better be a wrecking ball.

Joyce's avatar

If the Democrats regain the House (and, I hope, the Senate), the newly elected and the old guard had better be prepared to work 24/7: they'll have two years to repair as much of the damage as possible, plus start actually charging the fucking criminals and bringing about a least a measure of justice.

Leu2500's avatar

it's unlikely that they'll be able to charge the criminals - referrals go to the regime's DoJ, which will do nothing.

If there are any criminal charges, the Dems in Congress will have to work with states. I'm thinking the Manhattan DA (Wall St/financial crimes) had better be prepared to get busy.

Cyndi's avatar

California is already working on it, too.

And there's always impeachment for cabinet members.

Stephen Brady's avatar

I think it would take an act of god to get above 60 Senate Dems... For the next 2 years it is going to be a holding action, because any Democratic legislation which does get passed is going to be vetoed by the Orange Idiot.

Lynn Van Haren's avatar

Yup. We’ll be lucky to keep the Senate

Ann Anderson's avatar

From your lips, etc.

Daniel M Kimmel's avatar

Charging criminals may take a while. Trump and Blanche will still be calling the shots at the Department of Retribution.

devourerofpancakes's avatar

The old guard needs to step aside and let the new guard do the work of holding all the lying grifters accountable.

rlritt's avatar

I have great fear that the fascists propping up Trump are planning to rig the elections. Trump wont stop whining about how the election are all rigged in spite of many bipartisan investigations who find nearly no election tampering, and when they do, its usually Republicans.

john augustine's avatar

no dem neoliberals please

Songgirl Kim's avatar

He’s truly bugfuck nuts. I’m thinking he’s jealous because the Obama Presidential Center and Library will open on Juneteenth, and Obama is getting the attention. Love the photos. More, please.

Mary Boudreau's avatar

He would be very jealous if he had any awareness of what is going on.

Songgirl Kim's avatar

True. I doubt he can even read well.

Megan Ross's avatar

Every day feels like Groundhog Day with TRump. Even more horrifying is, that the mad bastard is given free rein to say crazy shit with no pushback from SO MANY PEOPLE. The media has shit the bed, Congress has given The Convicted Felon all the power they're supposed to use to keep him in check, and we the people just have to sit back and watch in horror. It's fKiNg infuriating!🤬

Sharon Hudnall's avatar

He's a senile old vulgarian who was just granted $1 billion by the Republicans in Congress for his marble shithouse ballroom/bunker. Saw on The Bulwark that he's hired a designer to re-do all the historic public golf courses in DC, plus the reflecting pool, while planning to raise green fees to $150-$200 per round, beyond the reach of the masses.

Michael Markowski's avatar

Thank you for sharing the beautiful pictures that forever capture a moment. They remind us of the best and most important connections in our lives. May you know the peace of their love…always.

Merrill's avatar

Stop being intimidated by the imaginary world of our Faux King POTUS the 1st, the GREATEST LEADER of ALL TIME, and the executive producer of an AMAZINGLY SUCCESSFUL reality TV show, "TRUMP 47, King of the WORLD. It's far beyond the time this fool loses all his power.

In Trump's fever dreams he schedules the fabulous episodes for his TV show. But now, several are running far beyond their allotted time;

"Epstein Who I Barely Knew", "Iran who I Defeated before I Began," "Oil Prices that went Up for No GOOD Reason" and "Affordability".

But don't worry America, HE and only HE is fixing this issue. Soon we'll just worry about Seashells and Windmills when we should be worried about our country that is being taken over by American billionaire oligarchs.

Joyce's avatar

I am terribly concerned about seashells. They make me very nervous when I walk on a beach. Who really knows what they are planning???

Zija Pulp's avatar

In that very same rambling speech, “I Have a Dream That No President Has Had to Take an ‘Am I a Cuckoo?’ Test,” Balm-Bam Trump inserted a math problem to freshen things up. I was surprised and welcomed it. In essence, he threw out a bunch of numbers (with lots of nines in them) and multiplication, division, and so forth—I lose track somewhere and start thinking I’ve got early signs of dementia—but then he doesn’t tell us the actual answer but boasts that the doctors are impressed. It was diverting.

Jeff, I think you are wrong in your analysis of Trump’s walk. If you watch again, as BamBam gets off the plane, he adjusts his waistband, which made me wonder if he’s losing weight. This would explain how he’s being blown off course.

I read on another Substack (don’t remember who) that when Margie refused to back down about the Epstein files, she received a note that harm could come to her son for her not being loyal to Bams. I’d heard other tales like that—I guess that’s how he’s been able to keep folks in line. In all seriousness, who do you report something like that to, given how corrupt LE is these days?

Susan Niemann's avatar

THANK YOU for these wonderful pictures. ❤️❤️

He is clearly out of his mind and yet, his people just go about their business. I'll never understand how you can ignore his obvious decline. And I love that the felon is being prepped for a blood bath November. If things dont start to turn around, we are royally screwed....we already are, but I'm hoping.

Lynn Van Haren's avatar

Not only go about their business, but repeat their given messaging on every network

David Simpson's avatar

Squirrel... Squirrel... What about Moose?

Sheva's avatar

Jeff, thank you so much for sharing your Claudia photos and memories with us. I've loved them all, but I think this one of Katie and Claudia from last year is my favorite.

Douglas Mackay's avatar

If his walking from the helicopter or plane (that never crashes) gets much worse, a limousine will be pulled up for him to enter immediately. Bonus for us: no ridiculous “presser” on the tarmac. Another plus for him: less of a chance for him to a) lose his train of thought, and b) change his mind in mid thought.

Joyce's avatar

Although it would be an opportunity for him to fail to recognize The Beast and walk right past it, as he has done before.

Leu2500's avatar

They pretty much do that with the limo already. After he walked past it & had to be retrieved during his 1st term (yes, he had dementia back then).

What I'm waiting for is him to go TIMBER! He's falling asleep WHILE STANDING. He did it again Mon, when the insider trader in charge of the SBA or whatever was speaking at the Small Business summit or whatever.

Deborah Hunter's avatar

My dog even lies down to fall asleep. Farm animals sleep standing up. He is a bovine creature.

Tess's avatar

Damn-we are so sick of this administration! Thanks for throwing humor into this deranged outfit! Pics of Claudia and Kate (I think I recall her name??!) are beautiful ❤️❤️❤️

Bonnie Boyce's avatar

Oh, I love your posts in honor of spouse and daughter. What an exemplary family life! Thank you, Jeff. And thank you for keeping the fire lit beneath so many of us who refuse to surrender our brains and moral compass to the orange orangutan and his ministries of silly everything.